Spring 2022 Networking Opportunities

We have a combination of in-person and virtual networking events for the Spring 2022 semester that allow our students to refine their personal brands and gain insights from executives across a range of industries. Building relationships and a professional network are a vital aspect of being a graduate business student. All students and alumni are encouraged to attend events hosted by RGSAAB and the Graduate Business Programs office. This Spring 2022 semester, we will have events such as visiting a brewery owned by a Rowan MBA alumnus, a family-friendly aquarium visit and numerous professional development events such as Q&A sessions with industry experts and LinkedIn profile workshops. These events will be valuable for all in attendance and we believe it will be an exciting semester filled with good times, new connections and fun experinces. 

For the most up-to-date event details and RSVP information, please visit the RCB Events page.

RGSAAB Member Profiles

Gabrielle Jean-Baptiste, MBA Candidate 2022

Client Satisfaction and Sales | Entrepreneurship and Business Development | Management and Cosmeceuticals

Gabrielle Jean-Baptiste works for Lannett Company as a Client and Sales Operations Specialist, utilizing SAP ERP to provide impeccable service to clients and patients. Her job functions include client management, order monitoring, order processing, inventory management, and pricing analytics. Gabrielle has four years experience of being a Supervisor and Assistant Manager at the famous Carlo’s Bakery and has over six years experience in resolving complex customer inquiries, generating sales, improving task inefficiencies, and performing administrative duties. Gabrielle enjoys entrepreneurship, cooking, baking, traveling, reading, and creating natural organic skincare products. With experience in management, pharmaceuticals, sales, skincare formulation, and customer service, her dream is to work in the Cosmeceutical industry and use that experience to create her own company. Gabrielle graduated with her BS in Business Management from Rowan University in 2017.

Nathan (Nate) Carroll, DO (2021), MBA (2019)

Physician and Psychiatrist | Business of Medicine | Entrepreneur

Dr. Nathan (Nate) Carroll is a physician and resident psychiatrist at Jersey Shore University Medical center. Nate is passionate about improving patient outcomes and reducing physician burnout by connecting the practice of medicine with the business of medicine. As a medical student that had just recently achieved completion of an MBA, Nate founded two significant ventures for Rowan students seeking to pair business acumen with medical expertise to improve patient outcomes, increase effectiveness, and expand access in medical care: Investmed, a business of medicine club and Project Nest, a healthcare-focused entrepreneurial business plan competition for medical and MBA students. He also helped launch SeeThru, a healthcare startup that focused on transparency in healthcare pricing. During his pursuit of his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Nate was awarded the James Fox Endowed scholarship, the Richard L. Davis, FACMPE / Barbara B. Watson, FACMPE scholarship, and the DaVinci scholarship based on his academic and professional accomplishments. Nate also serves as CEO of BreakThru Mentoring, which works to connect pre-medical students with student doctors and resident mentors. When not working he enjoys teaching karate, reading, and travel. Nate earned his DO at Rowan’s School of Osteopathic Medicine (2021) and his MBA at Rowan's Rohrer College of Business.

Marc Castrillon, MBA Alumni 2021

Human Resources Management | Corporate and Non-Profit Realms | Project Management

Marc Castrillon is a Business Development Representative for Compensation Tool, a firm that provide supports the day-to-day needs of compensation practitioners through a clean interface with intuitive processes for benchmarking and reporting. He has a wide range of work experience in compensation and benefits, customer service, other functions of HR, project management, and B2B relationship building in multiple industries. Marc is intrigued by opportunities to improve employee engagement and retention and seeks to expand expertise and impact for both organizations and team members.  Prior professional roles and internships include Executive and Sales Compensation for LabCorp, project management in a non-profit, sales and customer service at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Recruiting and B2B relations within an elevator/escalator consulting firm. Marc enjoys connecting people with each other for mutual gain and creating environments that foster great ideas from diversity, and we are fortunate that he serves as the Director of Community and Membership for RGSAAB. In his spare time, Marc enjoys bike riding, snowboarding, playing video games and cooking. Marc graduated from Rowan University in 2019 with a dual BS in Management and Human Resources and completed his MBA in Spring 2021.

Colin Cox, MS Finance Alumni 2020

Financial Analyst | Prior Service Army National Guard | Economic Development and Social Entrepreneurship

Colin Cox is a 2020 graduate of the MS in Finance program and is in a financial analyst role as part of at Lockheed Martin's Finance Leadership Development Program. Colin began his journey after high school by enlisting in the Army National Guard as a UH-60 Black Hawk Mechanic. After completing initial entrance training, Colin started at Rowan in fall of 2016 in pursuit of a BS in Finance, while simultaneously serving as a Black Hawk helicopter crew chief (aircrew). This experience along with a position as a student worker in the Rohrer College of Business Dean Suite provided Colin with the skill set necessary to take on an analyst role at Lockheed Martin upon his graduation in 2019. While working at Lockheed and pursuing his MS in Finance Degree, Colin began working towards his passion of personal finance by starting a financial literacy blog. Using the tools acquired at Rowan University and with the military, he hopes to enhance the economic position of those in the lower and middle class. 

Kevin Garvey, PharmD, MBA Alumni 2020

Pharmacy Management   |   Long-Term and Geriatric Operations   |    Improving Patient Outcomes

Amelia Gonzalez, MBA Candidate 2023

Recruiting and Retention   |   Mentoring Early Career Soldiers   |   Marketing, Sales, Management

Amelia Gonzalez is a soldier in the NJ Army National Guard. Amelia enjoys mentoring early career soldiers, providing them guidance and support to set and attain personal and professional goals. As a Recruiting and Retention Noncommissioned Officer (NCO), she helps enlist soldiers into military careers, establishes accountability of soldier fitness programs, oversees academic performance in professional military education (PME) requirements, and certifies readiness to ship out to training. She has also served in Specialist roles in Food Service and Human Resources in the National Guard. In civilian roles, she worked in marketing, sales, and event management in the entertainment industry at the NJ shore. Her career goal is to expand impact in the National Guard to support her community of soldiers in achieving success in education and career efforts. In addition to serving her country in her full-time job, and pursuing her MBA online part-time, the coolest job she’s ever had is wife and mom to four boys: she loves the fun-filled chaos that comes with each day with her family! Amelia earned her BS in Marketing at Hofstra University.

Lauren Kirk, MBA Candidate 2022

Banking and Credit   |   Team Building   |   Mentoring for Impact

Lauren Kirk is a VP Portfolio Manager at WSFS (Wilmington Savings Fund Society). With 18 years in the banking industry, her expertise includes consumer, commercial, credit risk, and cash management. She enjoys building strong teams and mentoring junior staff and aspires to bring her leadership skills to the executive level. Lauren helps facilitate professional development and industry connections for our MBA and MS Finance students through her work as moderator for the Ask Me Anything sessions, during which industry experts sharing valuable insights via Q&A in virtual meetings. She was named the recipient of the 2021 Lynch MBA Scholarship based on excellence and promise in areas of leadership, engagement, and commitment to growing the stature and reputation of the Rohrer MBA. Lauren graduated Cum Laude with her BA in Business Management, with a certificate in Compliance, from Wilmington University. As a wife and mother to three young boys (two of which are twins) – plus a full-time job plus part-time MBA studies – she has become a time management expert. She enjoys community involvement by being an active member of her son’s school association, she also enjoys traveling, reading, and volunteer work.

John Knapp, MBA Alumni 2021

Business of Healthcare | Project Management | Process Improvement and Operational Efficiency

John Knapp is the Project Manager at Wills Eye Hospital. John is responsible for overseeing Wills' electronic medical record (EMR) system and has recently led implementation of several cloud-based software solutions at the hospital. John functions in tandem with Wills' Nursing Leadership team to promote a quality patient experience and ensure the hospital is meeting all necessary regulatory and safety requirements. His experience working in fast-paced, diverse work environments has enabled him to effectively communicate and collaborate with Doctors, Nurses and both internal and external IT teams. John aspires to one day partner with leaders of the medical industry to assist in solving society's most costly medical issues providing data-backed recommendations. In his free time, John enjoys traveling, reading, exercising and enjoying the outdoors. John earned his Bachelor of Science at Siena College in Loudonville, NY in 2009.

Natalie Lyons Garvey, MBA Alumni 2020

Marketing and Branding   |   Events and Trade Shows   |   Social Media and Communications

Michelle Martinez, MBA Candidate 2022

Finance   |   Social Equity  |  Change Agent

Michelle Martinez is the inaugural recipient of the RCB MBA Fellow in Innovation and Impact. As an MBA Fellow, she is driven to make a positive impact in the area of finance and social equity. Michelle began her career in banking and investment management at TD Bank where she carried out customer service and account management functions including addressing financial challenges and providing support and tools for clients to achieve financial security. She then worked for The Vanguard Group where, as an Investment Specialist, she educated clients on the Vanguard family of funds. Michelle also directed and led a range of fundamental client-advisor support functions for a team of financial advisors in Bethesda, MD. In her current role, she assists brokerage firms in meeting their regulatory and compliance needs. Michelle is a socially conscious investor and seeks to collaborate with other visionaries on addressing long-standing disinvestment and financial capability issues within underserved communities. Michelle enjoys exercising, hiking, reading and volunteering. She earned her undergraduate degrees in Marketing and Management Leadership from La Salle University in 2013. Michelle resides in South Jersey with her family and her dog.

Brian Sforza, MBA Candidate 2022

Banking   |   Relationship Management   |   Financial Analysis

Brian Sforza is a Vice President within PNC’s Corporate & Institutional Bank and manages a portfolio of clients throughout New Jersey and the greater Tri-State area. Throughout his tenure with PNC, Brian has worked on multiple acquisition teams, helped to develop PNC’s corporate internship program, as led and supported numerous other process improvement and product-specific projects. Prior to his current role, he completed 1.5-yr executive rotation program in Pittsburgh with the bank’s senior management team, following his graduation of PNC’s corporate banking development & credit training program in 2009. Brian is an active volunteer of PNC’s Grow up Great program and serves as a board member at a local preschool. He earned his Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Monmouth University in 2008 and currently resides in Cherry Hill, NJ.

Kellie Stout, MBA Candidate 2022

Business of Healthcare   |   Organizational Development |  Change Agent

Kellie Stout is a Director of Ambulatory Operations at Cooper Hospital. She leads the ambulatory operations team in the oversight of a patient call center, is a credentialed EPIC instructor, and provides data analysis for the department.  Kellie has been in the medical field for over thirty years.  She collaborates with many teams and key stakeholders to develop and implement process improvement plans to contribute toward achieving key organizational goals on patient safety and satisfaction, quality performance, and fiscal responsibility.  Kellie has been an active member in her community, including leadership roles in girl scouts, cub scouts, little league and an elementary school board member.  She currently sits on the Sterling High School Board of Education, chairs the human resources committee, and is the school board county delegate.  Kellie is the mother of two young men, aged twenty-one and seventeen, and is proud that both have earned the rank of Eagle Scout.  Kellie enjoys reading, spending time with family and friends, and volunteering.  She earned her undergraduate degree in Accounting from Glassboro State in 1991.  Kellie resides in her hometown with her boys and two cats.

Jordan Wisser, MBA Alumni 2021

Information Technology Specialist | Project Management | NJ Air National Guard

Jordan Wisser is a Technical Sergeant in the New Jersey Air National Guard striving to grow as a better leader and business professional. He has a passion for personal development and aspires to lead IT professionals toward breakthroughs in the technology industry.  Jordan is a CompTIA Security+, Project+ certified IT Specialist with technical training and experience concentrated in Information Systems Management, Project Management, and IT Best Practices. He was named the 2020 recipient of Rowan’s Greg Angelucci Veterans Scholarship based on excellence and promise in areas of leadership, engagement, and commitment to growing the stature and reputation of the Rohrer MBA. Jordan is passionate about fitness, cooking, travel, and all things Philadelphia sports. Jordan earned a BSBA in Computer Information Systems and AS in Business Administration from Thomas Edison State University. He also earned an AS in Information Systems Technology from the Community College of the Air Force.